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The Rembrandts are best known for their song “I’ll Be There For You”, which was the main theme for the hit television show Friends. Their signature, almost Beatles-esque sound, coupled with ringing guitar and fresh harmonies, rocketed them to stardom in the 90s, and their third album LP went platinum as a result.

Despite that they are remembered primarily as a one-hit wonder, The Rembrandts had a fairly long history before “Friends” made them a household name. Lead vocalist Danny Wilde began his musical career as the lead singer of The Quick, an L. A.-based punk/power-pop combo briefly popular in the late 1970s due to their song “Pretty Please Me.” The duo—Danny Wilde and Phil Solem—had roots in an early 1980s new wave/power pop band called Great Buildings, who released a single critically-lauded album on Columbia in 1981, spawning minor hits in “Hold On To Something” and “Maybe It’s You”. After they disbanded, Wilde released a series of slick ’80s solo albums before rejoining with his former partner to form The Rembrandts. Initially, The Rembrandts were heavily indebted to simple, rootsy guitar pop, reminiscent of The Beatles and The Everly Brothers but also contemporaries like Squeeze and Crowded House. Their first, self-titled album, released in 1990, featured the surprise #14 hit “Just the Way It Is, Baby,” which managed to claw its way onto top 40 playlists despite sounding out of place for the time. Follow-up single “Someone” and “Save Me” also garnered small amounts of airplay.
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